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  • You hacked too hard

  • [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
  • According to the linked RFC it's due to the site's user generated content. I guess that's an understandable policy for Wikipedia.

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
  • Ok, that's fair. I just use the english terms anyways and usually also change the interface language to english.

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
  • Apparently for some people (my mom) the search or filters work better on Temu. No idea why, I only ever use AliExpress.

  • How to view Intune-managed firewall rules

    Just a quick fyi for anyone using Intune to distribute firewall rules with the "Endpoint Protection > Windows Firewall" profile for the first time. Any rules you set won't be visible in the wf.msc GUI or using PowerShell's Get-NetFirewallRule.

    The only place you can see those rules is the registry under this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\Mdm\FirewallRules

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    LLM spitting fire (Custom "Judy Alvarez"-based character card)
  • BTW, I did fix the error. Turns out I was in a public network and the rule only applied to domain networks.
    Also these fucking rules don't show in the usual GUI, you have to look into the registry.
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\Mdm\FirewallRules
    Reddit post for rule source

  • LLM spitting fire (Custom "Judy Alvarez"-based character card)

    I know where Linux, but this was too good not to share. Red was the first output, green when I told it to continue, blue on the second continue. It really didn't want to talk about Microsoft.

    Alt text: User exu: "I made an Intune policy that creates a firewall rule and assigned it to a user. Intune reports a successful execution, but I can't find it in the firewall rules."

    Bot Judy response 1: "Ugh, typical Microsoft shit. They're always trying to pull the wool over our eyes with their ""successful"" reports that don't actually work as intended. Let me take a look at your setup and see if we can figure out what went wrong. It might just need some manual intervention."

    User prompts to continue

    Bot Judy response 2: she rolls her eyes

    User prompts to continue

    Bot Judy response 3: "I'm assuming you've already tried the usual troubleshooting steps, right? Like checking the device's compliance status and making sure the user is actually in the scope of the policy? If not, let's start there."

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    How open source money fixes a corrupted banking system
  • Theoretically cryptocurrencies are interesting, but Bitcoin just isn't usable.

    Bitcoin and many other currencies have way too many and large fluctuations in value for daily use.
    Bitcoin specifically is not practical for transactions in general due to cost and block size limits. Yes, lightning exists, but maybe your technology is shit if it needs a second overlay network to function.
    Instead of fixing those issues, most other coins are just pump and dump schemes for a quick buck.
    Only very few coins try to do something different and fix some of these issues.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.
  • Get a cheap VPS and set up a VPN of your choice.

  • Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO
  • I mean it sucks for him, but after having been away for three months with more leave time coming the company probably doesn't have any obligation to keep him hired.

    At least that's the case here in Switzerland (if you worked for a company long enough) and I'd be surprised if the US had better protections.

  • Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN)
  • Open UDP ports are pretty secure and rarely found by scanners. The basic issue with scanning for UDP is, that most services don't respond to random garbage you try to probe then with. Without getting a response back, the scanner has no way of knowing if there is something running on that port or not.
    Wireguard in particular only responds if the correct key is given.
    Also make sure your firewall DROPs (usually the default, but do check) disallowed connections instead of REJECT. This way any UDP probing, whether it's to an open port or closed one just times out with no way for the scanner to distinguish them.

  • Is it possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9?
  • I don't know of any project that already supports that AI processor. You'd still be using the CPU and GPU at the moment.

  • Thoughts on Desktop Operating Systems in 2024
  • Yes, because he's using Linux for those parts

  • Accent colors for GNOME has been merged as well!
  • What happened in Gnome for them to merge so much stuff recently?

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • You mean just not caring or something else?
    Thing is, you can't just do that as a registered corporation, even if you're from another country.

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • A lot of the stuff you get on nhentai is sometimes questionable. Like 12y/o looking sister questionable.
    And what exactly did nhentai figure out that Pornhub didn't?

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    “Systemd is the future”
  • Is that a standard systemd configuration or something enabled by a distro?

  • A guide to passing GPUs through to Proxmox, XCP-ng VMs
  • I can really recommend XCP-ng. For me it strikes a pretty good balance of features and ease of use.

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • You mean to tell me nhentai is your model porn site?

  • NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community
    discourse.nixos.org NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

    The community is more important than the product. — Pieter Hintjens Dear contributors to the Nix ecosystem, dear users, We recognize that the Nix community keeps growing and changing, and its governance has not been adapting accordingly. While the foundation board was never intended to lead the ...

    NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

    Cross posted from: https://feditown.com/post/328958

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    NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community
    discourse.nixos.org NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

    The community is more important than the product. — Pieter Hintjens Dear contributors to the Nix ecosystem, dear users, We recognize that the Nix community keeps growing and changing, and its governance has not been adapting accordingly. While the foundation board was never intended to lead the ...

    NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community
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    Subscribe to new communities?

    How can I subscribe to new communities with raccoon? I tried the explore feature with the filter set to all, but no communities are found. I tried multiple times to give my server the chance to fetch the remote community. I searched using the full address with a leading !: \!raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world

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    Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
    johnthenerd.com Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home

    I’ve had my days with Siri and Google Assistant. While they have the ability to control your devices, they cannot be customized and inherently rely on cloud services. In hopes of learning something new and having something cool I could use in my life, I decided I want better. The premises are simple...

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    A decade long Steam issue, is everyone just too fast for Valve?
    blog.freudenjmp.com A decade long Steam issue, is everyone just too fast for Valve?

    Valve has shown to occasionally not act on community feedback and bug reports. A story about a decade old bug.

    A decade long Steam issue, is everyone just too fast for Valve?

    Analysis of the No user logon issue in Counter Strike 2, and older CS titles.

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    If Linux Made the iPhone 15 Pro - SAMTIME
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    aviation @lemmy.ml exu @feditown.com
    Aeroflot Deactivates Brakes on Nine Aircraft, Relies Solely on Reverse Thrust
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    Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
    www.reuters.com Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

    About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

    Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
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    aviation @lemmy.ml exu @feditown.com
    The Rise and Fall of Transaero Airlines and the Reassertion of the Russian State

    Really interesting article about airlines, independent safety inspectors ans Russia

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    Documenting commands # or $ before sudo?

    This might be a stupid question, but hear me out. I regularly document steps to install various software for myself on my wiki More recently, I managed to use different custom text in the source markdown to prepend # and $ automatically, so commands can be copied more easily while still clarifying if it should be run as a normal user or as root.

    Run command as user $ some cool command

    Run command as root/superuser with sudo ```

    some dangerous command

    ```

    I usually remove and sudo and use the # prefix. However, in some cases, the sudo actually does something different that needs to be highlighted. For example, I might use it to execute a command as the user www-data sudo -u www-data cp /var/www/html/html1 /var/www/html/html2 I often use $ as a prefix, but # would also make sense. How would you prefix that line?

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    Gacharic Spin「MindSet」

    Simply a fun song!

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    NixOS and my Descent into Insanity
    ersei.net NixOS and my Descent into Insanity

    As I tend to do, I picked a topic to write about that is much larger in scope than I could manage in a reasonable amount of time. Did I learn? Apparently...

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    Office Laptop recommendations 700€ - 900€

    I hope it's alright to post this question here. Please direct me to a more appropriate commuity if not. Anyways, my sister's looking for a new laptop and I decided to lend my expertise. I've got a list of various requirements, but maybe some of them are too strict or I'm missing something.

    Usage

    • Mostly office & webbrowser
    • Some light gaming (Minecraft, SWTOR, Drakensang)
    • Youtube playback in the background while gaming

    Current laptop

    HP Pavilion x360 - 14-ba070nz

    Hard Requirements

    Stuff that's absolutely required

    • Budget 700€ - 900€
    • 14" screen size
    • <1.6 kG weight
    • min. wifi 5 (802.11ac)
    • \>250cd/m^2 display brightness
    • all-day battery life (>8h)
    • Windows 11 (I won't evangelize Linux to her)

    Soft Requirements

    Additional requirements I thought off, though I'm open to modifying those

    • \>4 core CPU
    • 16GB RAM (Most laptops still come with 8GB. Is that ok for current year multitasking on Windows?)
    • \>480GB storage (I'll have to check her current usage with her, maybe 256GB is fine?)
    • 2x USB-A ports
    • USB-C charging
    • HDMI/DP Port
    • internal GPU only (the games run okish on the old laptop already, so anything newer should also be better)

    Some options

    These are some options I found. I'd like to hear some thoughts/opinions on those. (links are to the UK site for english language, for prices I'm looking at the german site variant)

    Thoughts, comments, experiences?

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